Hai Duong: Province-wide social distancing to end on March 3
The northern province of Hai Duong, the largest hotspot in the latest COVID-19 outbreak, is to end province-wide social distancing measures and lift lockdowns on Chi Linh city and Cam Giang district on March 3.
Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Pham Xuan Thang (Photo: VNA)
Hai Duong (VNA) - The northern province of Hai Duong, the largesthotspot in the latest COVID-19 outbreak, is to end province-wide socialdistancing measures and lift lockdowns on Chi Linh city and Cam Giang districton March 3.
It will shift to a new status, both drastically fighting the coronavirusand taking action to conduct socio-economic development tasks.
This was decided by the Standing Board of the provincial Party Committeeat a meeting on March 1 reviewing anti-COVID-19 efforts.
The coronavirus broke out in Hai Duong province on January 27.
The hotspot in Chi Linh has now been eliminated, while the one in CamGiang district is under control. Relevant forces are also ramping up efforts toaddress a cluster in Kim Thanh district, which has been sealed off, as soon aspossible.
Applauding the province’s sense of responsibility, Tran Nhu Duong,Deputy Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and headof the Ministry of Health’s working group, pointed out that its greatest successis that there haven’t been any related fatalities, testing capacity has increaseddozens of times, and nearly 11,000 groups for COVID-19 monitoring, prevention,and control were set up in the community with the participation of over 25,000people.
The meeting of the Standing Board of the Hai Duong provincial Party Committee on March 1 (Photo: VNA)
He also warned, however, about a possible resurgence of the virus, andasked the province to view fighting COVID-19 as a regular and ongoing task inthe “new normal”.
Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Pham Xuan Thang said that, fromMarch 3, Hai Duong will carry out 10 groups of anti-COVID-19 solutions and fivegroups of socio-economic development solutions.
As the outbreak may return, the entire local political system will notlower its guard and will remain on alert and be stringent in the fight, hestated.
As of the afternoon of February 28, Hai Duong had recorded 665 cases ofCOVID-19 in this new outbreak, with 297 recoveries. More than 16,000 people weresent to concentrated quarantine sites.
Authorities have also strictly dealt with violations of rules on diseaseprevention and control, imposing fines totalling over 3.4 billion VND (147,000USD)./.
Vietnam’s COVID-19 vaccination will be conducted in line with the Government’s resolution, thus ensuring equal access to the vaccines, heard a recent meeting between the Health Ministry and WHO and UNICEF representatives.
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Chairman of the Hai Duong provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duong Thai, who is also head of the provincial Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, on February 27 decided to dissolve the hospital No.1 for COVID-19 treatment as the locality has basically kept the pandemic under control.
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Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Pham Xuan Thang (Photo: VNA) 
The meeting of the Standing Board of the Hai Duong provincial Party Committee on March 1 (Photo: VNA) 
